Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p A similarly named country house in Yorkshire is Wentworth Castle.Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It served as "One of the great Whig political palaces". Its East Front is 606-foot (185 m) long, making it the longest country house façade in Europe. It is also the largest private house in the United Kingdom, with 250,000 square feet of floorspace. The house comprises over 200 rooms and covers an area of over 2.5 acres (1.0 ha). It is surrounded by a 180-acre (73 ha) park and by an estate of 15,000-acre (6,100 ha), which are now separately owned. An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham (1693–1750), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse. In the 18th century it was inherited by the Earls Fitzwilliam, who owned it until 1979 (when it passed to the heirs of the 8th and 10th Earls), having profited greatly from the great quantities of underground coal on the estate.. }
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- Wentworth_Woodhouse abstract "A similarly named country house in Yorkshire is Wentworth Castle.Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It served as "One of the great Whig political palaces". Its East Front is 606-foot (185 m) long, making it the longest country house façade in Europe. It is also the largest private house in the United Kingdom, with 250,000 square feet of floorspace. The house comprises over 200 rooms and covers an area of over 2.5 acres (1.0 ha). It is surrounded by a 180-acre (73 ha) park and by an estate of 15,000-acre (6,100 ha), which are now separately owned. An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham (1693–1750), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse. In the 18th century it was inherited by the Earls Fitzwilliam, who owned it until 1979 (when it passed to the heirs of the 8th and 10th Earls), having profited greatly from the great quantities of underground coal on the estate.".